“A strange thing, words. Once they're said, it's hard to imagine they're untrue.”

“We didn't make ourselves," she says. "We aren't the greatest things to exist. I can't believe that. I won't believe that. We have too many faults.”

“Her hair is full of icy wind and daylight. She is every princess, every queen, in the history book.”

“The madness of youth made me unafraid.”

“You arent crazy, he says. What? Ive known you all your life, and youve always tried to hide the parts of yourself that you think are wrong. But nothing is wrong with you. Those may be the best word...”

“People die, and everything they've ever said just echoes around and around. There's nothing new. Only the same nonsense from their lives.”

“I love that you get cold when it's 71 degrees out. I love that it takes you an hour and a half to order a sandwich. I love that you get a little crinkle above your nose when you're looking at me li...”

“I've got about ten things to say to you right now. But at least nine of them would make me sound like a psycho.In spite of the seriousness of the situation, I nearly smiled. Whats the tenth thing? ...”

“A truly happy woman drives some men and almost every other woman absolutely crazy”

“You are the stories and incidents that you never tell to anyone. You are the thoughts that you get while standing under theshower. You are those memories that won't lets you sleep at night peaceful...”

“I cant really act the way I want to act, or say what I want to say all the time. And a lot of times, I cover that up with a smile.”

“People that say they have nothing to hide, cant be trusted with your secrets.”

“Corum knew that he was mad, in Vadhagh terms. But he supposed that he was sane enough in Mabden terms. And this was, after all, now a Mabden world. He must learn to accept its peculiar disorders as...”

“As a writer one is allowed to have conversations with oneself. What is considered sane in writers is made for the rest of the human race.”

“A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity.”